[i_like_waiting]

But I pretty much don't. I hoped that it will be as easy as disabling cortana on windows 10, but degoogling your phone is super user-unfriendly and something that almost has to become your hobby.

But for people thinking about it, its still worth it, with Afwall+ to not have ads in any app, newpipe to have functionality of youtube premium and barinsta to make sure you are not dragged into endless reels recommendations on instagram, its magic.

[Fnoord]

Barinsta got DMCAed or something, F-Droid page is up [1] but the GitHub (linked from there) isn't, and the F-Droid package is still from last summer 2021.

I use a Pi-Hole in my LAN, and Wireguard to it. Low latency so works very well, and given it has a killswitch my connection is always secure -- public WLAN or WAN be damned. The downside is my device and all apps have access to my LAN. Although some of my devices are on a DMZ, and the Pi-Hole works from there as well but the rest of the LAN not.

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.austinhuang.instagrabber/

[411111111111111]

Blokada works well enough for ad blocking without root by creating a local "vpn" connection and newpipe never needed root to begin with.

Personally, I gave up on root when it became too much of a hassle to maintain, which was after Android 4.4 as far as I remember.